On 12/12/2017 02:41 PM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > finally, a new development snapshot! > > We just released the fourth development snapshot in the > GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10. > > This is an unstable development preview and might crash > or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save your > images more often. > > For a complete list of changes since 2.9.6 please see the > "Changes" section below. > > There is also a release announcement on www.gimp.org > with screenshots and some videos: > > https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/12/gimp-2-9-8-released/ > > Happy GIMPing, > --Mitch
Wow!!! I'm impressed with all the work that's been going on! I'm totally looking forward to GIMP 2.10!!!!! :) > > > Download > ======== > > GIMP 2.9.8 is available from: > > https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.9/ > > and from the mirrors listed at: > > https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/#mirrors > > The checksum of the tarball is: > > bade4163fb5b7a2063e1db570f27242f gimp-2.9.8.tar.bz2 > > > Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.9.6 to GIMP 2.9.8 > ================================================= > > Core: > > - The default brush is now "Hardness 050". > - Verbose version (command line: gimp -v) now displays C compiler > information. > - Transform tools don't commit identity transformation anymore. > - Manual language can now be selected amongst all installed manuals, > which is particularly interesting when no GIMP manuals are > available in your GUI language. This will be proposed by default > when a manual is not installed for the GUI language (alongside the > possibility to read online) and the choice can be edited in > preferences. > - The statusbar now blinks on warnings and errors. > - Paste in Place, available for regular clipboard and named buffers, > allows pasting contents of either the clipboard a named buffer at > the exact coordinates it was copied from. > - Color Picker should now work on KDE/Wayland. > - Color Picker now reads values under cursor in local windows making > it work at least inside GIMP Windows on Wayland platforms with no > color-picking capabilities (for instance GNOME/Wayland) yet. > - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and > drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-threaded > implementation, and can also sometimes be "glitchy". > - Now possible to open a locally-installed manual different from the > GUI localization. The manual language choice can be customized > through preferences when several manuals are installed. If no > manual language has been selected already and no manual for > current GUI localization is available, choice of help language > will be proposed at first call to the manual. I do have a question about OpenCL support. If it's disabled by default, how does one enable it? Peace... Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../ _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
